The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-29
PERSONAL.

THE editor of the Sherman (Tex) Register
bears the remarkably cheerful name of Cash
Surplus
PROBABLY the smallest man in the country is
Rees Wittler, of Plymouth, Pa. He is 81 years,
weighs fifty-eight pounds and is three feet high
PRESIDENT GILMAN, of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, will this summer revisit his old home in
California, and probably go up to Alaska for a
short time.
DR.. SWAN NJ BURNETT, the husband of Frances
Hodgson Burnett, is keeping bachelors hall in
Washington. DR.. Burnett is a native of Ten
nessee, man of ability and artistic tastes
THE wives of Secretary Whitney and Post
master General Villas have left the national CAPT.
tai for the season. Mrs. Whitney will go to
Lenox; Mrs. Villas to her home in Wisconsin.
INSPECTOR GENERAL BAIRD and Col. Hasbrook,
commandant of cadets at West Point have
been detailed TO visit France in September for
the purpose of witnessing the fall maneuyres
of the French army.
JAMES r. RANDALL, of the Admission Hot
Blast, thinks AppomattoX has been avenged be-
cause half dozen VirginianS have recently in
vaded the matrimonial North and carried off
rich heireSseS for brides
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLy, the poet, has beau
tiful wife. A plaster bust, life size, by John
Donoghue, the Boston sculptor, and sent to New
York for perpetuation in bronze, has been ex-
hibited to a favored few.
AMONG the graduates at the Academy of the
Visitation, Washington, on whom diplomas were
conferred by Cardinal Gibbons were a daughter
of Senator Ingalls,, of Kansas, and one Of Con
gresham Randall of Philadelphia.
THE late Gen. A. c. Gordon, of Alabama. was
in his boyhood captured by Indians and held a
prisoner for several months During that time
he learned their language, and in after years
made good use of this knowledge in trading
with them.
1T is SAID in Cincinnati that the financial col
lapse of T.. L. Harper, of the Fidelity Bank is
the outcome of plan for revenge made by Phil
Armour, of Chicago, who was severely injured
some years ago in a deal in which Harper dis
played great treachery
JOSEPH HoE1NG KAsTIE, of Lexington, Ky..
who won the scholarship at Johns Hopkins
University last year in chemistry, has this year
taken the fellowship in the same study, which
carries with il an award of $500 in gold with
fees paid for next year.
QUEEN ISABELLA of Spain was recently told
that her younger sister, the Duchess of Mont
pensier, looked older than her majesty, where
upon she exclaimed: "Then she ought TO be
happy for she has wanted to be the elder sister
her whole life long, and now, at least, she APP
pears TO be So"
IT was an interesting circumstance that while
the mob outside was clamoring for his blood,
the Rev. DR. Courtney, chief speaker at the
jubilee banquet in Faneuil Hall, Boston, was
eloquently pleading the very cause the rioters
professed attachment to- The Pilot declares
that IL was "the address of gentleman and a
conscientious man. With large and noble
patriotism toward England, he remembered the
Affections of Ireland and the dreadful exaspera-
tions Of her people"
GEN. ALBERT PIKE, poet. soldier and Grand
Commander of the Southern jurisdiction of Free
Masons, lives, at the age of q, in retirement at
Washington, ID. G. He is tall, robust and hand
some. He spends his time In his library trans
lating the Sanscrit books of Veda Gen. Pike
has translated seventeen volumes of a thousand
pages each None of them have yet been
printed. The General is an accomplished lin
guist and M well acquainted with modern Ian
guages as with ancient.
LORD MAYOR Sullivan, Of Dublin, declined an
invitation TO attend the Queens jubilee because
he preferred TO be somewhere else. The some
where else was In the presiding officers chair at
a meeting of the Irish League In Dublin, and in
his speech the Lord Mayor said: "On Jubilee
day, at this crisis and this moment, we pledge
ourselves anew 20 the Irish national cause and
declare our readiness and determination TO
stand by that cause. despite whatever this
tyrannical Tory government may have in store
for U.s.